CNN Poll: Clinton up 5 on Trump

A new CNN/ORC poll finds Hillary Clinton opening up a 5-point lead over Donald Trump since last week’s presidential debate.

Clinton leads Trump 47 percent to 42 percent with likely voters in the CNN/ORC survey released Monday.

A CNN/ORC poll conducted before the contest found Trump leading her by 2 points, 45 percent to 43 percent.

{mosads}In the new poll, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson grabs 7 percent, followed by Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein with 2 percent. One percent picked no one and 1 percent had no opinion.

Pollsters also found Clinton’s lead grows when voters were asked to imagine her and Trump as the only candidates listed on their state’s ballot.

Fifty-one percent back Clinton in that scenario, while 45 percent said Trump and 3 percent picked neither. One percent answered “other.”

CNN/ORC conducted its latest sampling of 1,213 likely voters via cell and landline telephone interviews from Sept. 28-Oct. 2. It has a 3 percent margin of error.

Clinton and Trump clashed in their first of three presidential debates on Sept. 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.

Polls released since their meeting show Clinton enjoying a modest boost with voters at both the national and state levels.

A Red Oak Strategic survey released earlier Monday, for example, found Clinton leading Trump by 5 points nationwide.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, led Clinton by 2 points during the firm’s last poll from mid-September.

Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, tops Trump by about 3 points nationwide in the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls.